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the freedom and opportunities offered by America. In other words, this immigrant mother means well. She simply wants her daughter ...
decides rather early on that each of them would be better off without the other to feed, fuel and nurture the dysfunction of their...
In six pages this paper analyzes the plays The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Night of the ...
offers a very powerful image of the lives these people live trapped in a tiny apartment and in their individual lives. Melville...
clearly tied to Puritan religious practice, it nevertheless also has a political dimension that was particularly apt to the era in...
Tom, then, is the central male figure in the family. Their father has abandoned them some many years before, and so it has fallen...
see the beauty in one who does not like reality, while Walkers story offers up, in many ways, a negative look at one who is not wi...
be physically there in the production; the idea that she has a handicap, according to Williams, need only be suggested. The proble...
the one who is primarily the main focus of the play and it is her collection that bears the title of the story, as she collects gl...
scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...
we look at the content of the play and how it may be staged we have a better idea of how to interpret the work. It is after lookin...
around the characters. Through the decaying setting, and also a setting that is quite dreamlike, the story begins on a very allusi...
In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...
In four pages this paper analyzes human dreams in a contrast and comparison of these two award winning American dramas. Two sourc...
In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares how the authors utilize symbolism in these respective works. Seven sources are c...
the additional mouth to feed will put the family into jeopardy. The audience knows that she is considering abortion. To end all of...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....
at home. He has to find some way to escape without destroying his family the way his father had sixteen years ago. It is for this ...
for she "She breathes with motherly tenderness and love for all, for life itself. And Linda has a heart full and hands outstretche...
he realizes are poor quality. The boys awakening to reality is a shock. He suddenly understands that he has built up an entire f...
describes his economic class and the perplexed foot player who has difficulty naming one means of transportation. Again, the humor...
of the American theater; it is also one of the first to combine realism and symbolism successfully. This paper discusses Williamss...
function as one interfused mass of automatism" (Williams 3). This is a setting that exists perhaps in every large city in the na...
in his pocket (Williams 22). He frequently reminds the audience that they are watching a "memory play," which means he possesses ...
With Amanda and Laura however, it is the way into reality (Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie). In the case of Laura the fire escape...
of Blue Mountains finest male suitors. She makes frequent mention of Blue Mountain and Blue Roses, and one can assume this symbol...
character of Laura is very illustrative of this, and she is somewhat reminiscent of such women as Ophelia, from Shakespeares Hamle...
his mother Amanda, and his sister Laura retreat into their own safe havens of illusion. As one critic observed, "No matter how ur...
she clearly lives in the past. At the time in which the play takes place Amanda has apparently raised her two children to adulthoo...